This is a list of some poems that have been subsequently set to music. In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song. A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied, or in the French language, a Mélodie. A group of poems, usually by the same poet, which are set to music to form a single work, is called a song cycle.
"Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
"For me the jasmine buds unfold". Op. 19, no. 1. For sop. or tenor and piano. 1 score (7 p.). Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1892)
"Go not too far". Op. 56, no. 2. High and low voice. Words also printed as text. Caption title. 1 score (5 p.); 35 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1904)
"I know not how to find the spring". Op. 56, no. 3. For medium voice and piano. Caption title. Words also printed as text on p. 2. 1 score (5 p.); 36 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1904)
"Give me not love". Op. 61. Duet for soprano and tenor. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.); 34 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1905)
"After". Op. 68. High and low voice. Words also printed as text. Caption title. 1 score (7 p.); 35 cm. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt. (1909)
The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers.
The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death".
"Those Dancing Days Are Gone" and "Before the World Was Made" are both performed by Carla Bruni on the album "No Promises".
"Stolen Child" (Also set to music by The Waterboys, although mostly spoken)
"The Two Trees"
"The Song of a Wandering Aengus" is set to music by Caroline Herring.
'5 Songs on Poems by W.B.Yeats' composed by Dutch composer Carolien Devilee (A Faery Song, He wishes for the clothes of heaven, The lake isle of Innisfree, To his heart, bidding it have no fear & The everlasting voices)
"Tread Softly" by Tiny Ruins, uses the words of "The Cloths of Heaven" by Yeats.
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven" by North Sea Radio Orchestra sets Yeats' poem of the same title to music.
The album "Branduardi Canta Yeats" features the works of Yeats performed by Angelo Branduardi in Italian
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is set to music by composer Muriel Herbert.
"Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye was translated into Japanese and set to music under the title "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" (I Am the Thousand Winds). It is also set to music by Howard Goodall in the movement Lacrymosa from Eternal Light, A Requiem.
Kate McGarry performs E.E. Cummings' poem "I Carry Your Heart" on her album If Less Is More... Nothing Is Everything
The lyrics of the song "How Fortunate the Man With None" by Dead Can Dance are from John Willett's translation of Bertolt Brecht's poem "Die Ballade von den Prominenten"